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THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED. KURTZ, Eptror and Pror'r
Edmunds sent off a wooden nutmeg
argument in reply to the President's mes-
sage, in senate on Monday of last week.
There is not much bottom to his posi-
tion.
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We have received a copy of the World
Almanac with the (compliments of Jo-
seph Pulitzer. The Almanac is decided-
ly one of the best put out this year.
Price 25 cents and actually worth three
times the price.
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Seventy-two licenses out of one hun-
dred and fifty were granted in Clearfield
county.
Another dry town is Hughesville, Ly-
coming county, all the licenses being
rejected.
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About the biggest piece of baby states-
manship, of this age, is the effort of Sen-
ator Edmunds to stop President Cleve-
land from removing Republicans, after
the party has enjoyed the fat places for
25 years.
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The investigation being conducted by
(Governor Pattison and Attorney Gener-
_al Cassidy into the conduct of the Sol-
diers’ Orphans’ Schools show that the
Chester Springs and McAllisterville pla-
ces are little, if any, better than that at
Mt. Joy.
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Edmunds’ broadside at the President
was like a shot of the Merrimac at the
Monitor—it scarcely left a dent. Ed-
munds, next night, was at the white-
house reception, seeming to wear a look
of “I only did it for fun.” If Edmunds
were president of a wooden nutmeg fac-
tory he would not be much out of his
element.
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The Republicn bosses will evidently let
Gen. Beaver's nomination go by default,
seeing that the masses of the party are
for him. The Hartranft movement was
a feeler to test the temper of the party,
and the responses not coming in to the
tune of Hail Columbia, that boom-let
will be left to wither while the prospects
of the General will remain green.
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The orphan school scandal in our state
is on a par with the Tewkesbury alms-
house infamy Massachusetts. Both
under Republican management, and the
lucre pocketed helped to oil the machine
run by the bosses to keep them in pow-
er. Robbiog under the alms-house sys-
temin Massachusetts and under the or-
phan school system in Pennsylvania are
two gems that will “shine.” .
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Bismark has the rheumatism—s0 have
one or two of the Rzrortea’s subscri-
bers. In Alabama a mother and daugh-
ter were sentenced for 21 years for the
murder of the father. Logan, of lllinois,
and Long, of Massachusetts, is a new
presidential team that some republicans
are talking about. Galusha A. Grow is
candidate for the U. 8, Senate, in place
of Mitchell whose term will expire,
On 9th the miners in the Clearfield
region met in convention and resolved
upon their future action. 1,583 votes
were cast for arbitration and 710 for
strike. The operators will be asked to
arbitrate their dewands, and the miners
will continue to work until a decision is
reached.
This is a more sensible way than rush.
ing wildly into a strike by which miners
lose months of wages and all business in
localities affected 18 disturbed, violence
committed and property destroyed.
The Old Roman has a close hold on
the affections of the people. In the Sen-
ate, when Edmunds in the course of a
Republican speech spoke of Judge Thur-
man as the best, the greatest, and the
noblest Democrat in the country, there
was a rumble of applause through the
Senate and galleries, The next day,
when Senator Pugh was making his
speech from the Democratic standpoint,
he indorsed all that Edmunds said of
Thurman and declared he “is the great.
est, the wisest and purest American
statesman now living.” Thereat there
was great applause in the galleries, which
the President of the Senate found it dif-
ficult to suppress. There is no question
Thurman has a stronger grip on the affec-
tions of the American people than any
man in public life to-day. The old gen-
tleman is in a good state of preservation,
and in 1888, if Cleveland should not be
nominated, may prove a likely candi-
date.
Still there is a faction of Democrats in
Ohio, jealous of Judge Thurman, and
they try to keep him under, In the
late presidential race they even prevent-
ed the noble old Roman from getting
the Ohio delegates for President. The
unscrupulous often in this manner keep
honest and pure men out of places of
trust, because they can’t use them for
selfish purposes. That class of skunks
are Zand nearly everywhere,
DISPOSING OF $79,000,000,
The education bill passed the Senate
on the 6th inst., by a vote of 36 to 11.
It provides that, for eight years after its
passage, there shall be annually appro-
priated from the treasury the lollowing
sums in aid of common school education
in the States and Territories and Dis-
trict of Columbia and Alaska: The first
year, $7,000,000; the second year, $10,-
000,000; the third year, $15,000,000; the
fourth year $13,000,000; the fifth year,
$11,000,000; the sixth year, $9,000,000;
the seventh year, $7,000,000. the eighth
year, $5,000,000, making $77,000,000, be-
sides which there is a special appropria-
tion of $2,000,000 to aid in the erection
of school houses in sparsely settled dis-
tricts, making the total fund $79,000,
O00,
The money is given to the several
States and Territories “in that propor-
THE STORY OF THE ORPHANS.
The Investigation at Mount Joy Full of
Startling Developments,
A Harrisburg dispatch to the Philad.
Times eays :
“With each recurring day the Gov-
difficult to obtain evidence of the mis-
management of the Soldiers’ Orphan
School at Mount Joy. Monday very im-
portant facts were disclosed, and that
without much effort. Oa Saturday the
principal answered questions with great
reluctance, but Monday he gave his evis
dence very freely and promptly com-
plied with every request of the Govern-
or and the Attorney-General. The com-
missioners were unable to get at the
books of the institution on Saturday, but
on Monday they were furnished without
tion which the whole number of persons
in each, who, being of the age of 10 years|
and over, cannot write, bears to the|
whole number of such persons in the |
United States,” according the sensus of |
1880, until the census figures of 1890}
shall be obtained, then according to the
latter figures. In states having separate
schools for white and colored children,
the money shall be paid out in support
of such white and colored children be-
tween 10 and 12 years old in the ratio
such states bear to each other by the
census,
No state is to receive the benefits of
the act until its Governor shall file with
the Secretary of the Interior a statement
giving full statistics of the school system,
attendance of white and colored chil
dren, amount of money expended, etc,
number of schools in operation, number
and compensation of teachers, &e.
any protest. The principal also suppliad
pended for the quarter ended, Septem-
ber, October and November last, $2,139.
This statement was important in show-
ing that not much more than $8,000 was
expended a year,to feed the three hun-
dred orphans and employes in the school,
Other testimony showed that the sala-
ries paid to the principal and his subor-
dinates, fourteen in all, were only sbont
$2,900 a year.
“The Governor had with him the re-
cords filed at the auditor general's de~
partment, assuming to show how much
clothing had been furnished to each pu-
pil for the year ended May, 1885, and
the price of it. These records were ar-
arranged to coyer the amount of money
required to be applied to the purchase of
clothing-—one-sixth of the appropriation
voted by the State. To ascertain the cor-
rectness of these records a number of
No State or Territory shall receive in
any year from this fund more money
from its own revenues for common
schoolz. If any State or Territory de.
clines to take its share of the national
fund, such share is to be distributed
among the states accepting the benefits
of tue fund, If any State or Territory
misapplies the fund, or fails to comply
with the conditions, it losses all subse-
quent apportionments. Samples of all
school books in use in the common
schools of the States and Territories
shall be filed with the Secretary of the
Interior. Any State or Territory accept
ing the provisions of the act at the first
session of the Legislature, after the pas
gage of the act, shall receive its pro rata
share of all previous annual appropria-
tions,
Congress reserves the right to alter
or repeal the act. The bill now goes to
the House of Representatives for con-
currence,
EE — a ———
LET HIGBEE GO.
State Superintendent Higbee sent in
his regular report of schools to Governor
Pattison the other day. In this report
the Superintendent states that among
other things he has visited all the sol
diers’ orphan schools in the State and
finds them in excellent condition. Of
course Higbee did not know of the Gov-
ernor'’s investigation and he doubtless
felt sick when he read in the Philadel
phia papers an account of the Govern-
or's investigation. The report of the re-
volting condition of the schools was pub-
lished the same day when Higbee re-
ported that they were all right. Higbee
ought to go. All these schools are un-
der his alleged watchful eye, and he was
either too dull to see what was going on
or had other reasons for not attending to
his duties. This orphan asylum scandal is
the most disgraceful expose of the day.
It should be pushed to the end, and our
knowledge of Governor Pattison’s habit
of treating such evils leads us to assure
the public that this time there will be
no let up.
ii tal iit san
A BTEAL.
The blanks which the assessirs sup-
ply to taxables under the new tax law
are cumbersome and unwieldy. It will
require about cne million of these
blanket sheets to go around in this state.
A sheet one-quarter the size would be
large enough to contain all thatis onthe
present sheet, and three-fourths of the
expense of paper and printing of one
million sheets be saved.
We see a big job, we mean a big steal,
in this for somebody, with a divy, no
doubt, for the state officials who order
and permit it,
There is work here for the Auditor
General to look into, and a chance to
stop a clear robbery when the big bill
comes in for paper and printing. The
job in its present shape is an unwarrant-
ed expense upon the treasury, and needs
looking after,
Stop the tax-blank steal.
Ex-President Arthur is hopelessly iL
The bill increasing widows’ pensions
has passed.
Joseph McMeen, in Japiala county,
bas been arrested for poisoning his wife.
The railroad strike in the west still
continues.
{girls and boys were examined as to the
larticles they received in the year indi
{cated. It was shown by the testimony
{of the girls that they had been given but
lone pair of gloves, while they were
charged with four. Collars were also
leredited against them which they denied
{having received. The evidence of the
{boys was to the effect that they bad not
{been furnished with boots in the year
covered by the records,
“One of the interesting things present-
{ad at the hearing was a bill of fare of the
{school from October 1 last, carefully kept
iby Daniel Henry, aged 14 years. Thuis
{record bad been left in the bath room by
ithe orpban, and the male attendant,
|Sherbin, captured it. Henry gave testi-
| mony to this effect, and Sherbin was or-
dered to prodace the bill of fare, which
he did in the meekest possible manner,
The bill of fare for several days was as
follows: January 1-—Breakfast, fried
bread; dinner, soup and meat; supper,
prunes. January 2-—Breakfas:, beans;
dinner, potatoes and corn; supper, ap-
ples. anvary 8—Breakfast, hominy;
dinner, potatoes and turnips; supper,
canned apples. January Broan
hominy; dinner, meat and soup; supper,
rice. Jaouary 5—Breakfast, gravy; din.
ner, potatoes aud cabbage; supper, dried
apples. January 6--Dreakfast, beans;
dinper, soup edd meat; supper, canned
apples. Janoary 7—Breakfast, corn meal;
dinner, cabbage and tomatoes; supper,
currents.
“ According to Henry, black and un.
sweatened coffees was furnished for break.
fast and tea, without milk or sugar for
supper. Atall of the meals bread snd
butter were furnished. Mre. McFadden,
the cock, was suldected to a long exam-
ination, in which she gave a detailed
statement of the quantity cooked each
day. She denied the statement of Hen
ry that the tea was not sweetened, stat
ing that two pie-dishes full of sugar were
used. She testified that four pounds of
coffee and § of a pound of tea were used
daily. Figures were presented showing
that only $360 were expended in the
quarter ended November.
“Principal Kreider was a little flarried
by the discovery of an interlineation of
the word “loan” in the account of James
L. Paul, one of the members of the syn
dicate. The principal was forced to ad-
mit that be had inserted the word since
the commission began its work, It had
been written over other sums and be
wanted to preserve the uniformity,
“An important witness was J, %. Hip-
ple. principal of the school from August,
883, to March, 1884. He admitted while
be held the position there were at one
time twenty-four pupils with frozen feet,
and thirty with itch. This condition nt
affairs wes ascribed in = large measure
to the lack of comfortable quarters and
the limited supply of hired help,
“If the amount expended for the talle
of the school the last quarter be taken as
the average it costs about $8,000 a year
to feed the pupils and employes, The
salaries, medical services and drugs cost
$3,200 more. Ifthe | amount ap
pied to the Purchint of clothing, about
S00 woul be added to expense
list, another $1000 would cover all
their expenses, leavin
syndicate from this
year. The breakfast for
the management
and dinner 44.”
of $17,000
each
1} cents, supper 2 cents
RM SI MAAN
A GANG OF YOUNG BURGLARS
Reading, Pa, March 11,—Detective
Schaeffer, of this city, has succeeded in
breaking up a gang of young criminals
concerned in soveral oy burglaries
recently committed in this ae This
morning he captured a lot of tools which
he fcund in hiding
boys will be tried next
charge of robbi
bail
ing
MEASURE OF LAND DAMAGE.
The following may be of interest to
county :
Company for compensation for the tak
and consequential depreciation by rea
the operation of the road.
between the market value of his
the construction of the same,
sider the additional burden of fencing
another action, and the
of his land.
ages cannot be considered.
reason of the construction of the road
which may increase its value specially
but these advantages must be special
enjoy in common with his neighbors.
pr
LORDS,
sell liguor in that county:
law:
ist.
a violation of the law.
he can get the liquor,
being intemperate.
2d. For either yourself or your agent
wor on Sanday, is a violation of the law
To sell Spisiifous or other intoxicatio
liquors and allow the person to drin
drunk, is a violation of the law.
violation of the laws,
yoked.
ought 10 close your bar not later than
a proper person 10 have license,
guests or borders, and payiog
privilege, but who live in the vicinity
your barkeeper.
license ia the foture, as not being a pro-
per person to have license,
os MY AMI MPH BAAD
& curroro WITH MURDE
Grave for Poisoning Her,
Banks twelve grains of strychnine,
the purpose of killing rats,
gist placed the poisonous
AN ENTIRE FAMILY SLAIN.
A Frightful Crime Committed by a Seven
teen-year-old Boy.
Kansas City, Mo., March 9.—Particu-
*|lars have been received here of the mur-
der of the Sells family by its youngest
member, a boy seventeen years of age,
near Osage Mission, Neosho County,
Kan, The crime Is one of the most hor-
rible on record. Mr. Mendel, living 13
miles northwest of Osage Mission, was
awakened ahout 1 o'clock yesterday
morning by a scream, shortly followed
by another coming from the road in
front of his house. He went to the door
and was met by Willie Bells, the son of
J. W., Bells, living about a quarter of
mile up the road. The boy cried
“Mr. Mendel, a man is at our honse with
a hatchet and has hurt father and moth-
er. I don’t know how badly.” Mendel
,{ went with the boy, arousing J. I.
another neighbor, on the
reaching Bells’ house a
sight met their eyes.
In the bed in the north room lay Wal-
ter Willie's eldest brother and bedfel-
low, aged nineteen, his throat cut and
the entire top of his head chopped of
exposing the brain. Passing into the
main room, where a light was burning,
they stumbled over the form of Mr. Sells,
his head crushed and almost severed
from his body. Near by lay Mrs, Sells,
aged 43, her head mashed and a fearful
gash in her throat. On the bed in the
southeast corner of this room lay Ina,
Willie's sister, aged fourteen, killed in
the same manner as the other three,
+ Near Mr. Sell#’ head was a bloody butch-
er knife and on a chair a hatchet, mat-
ted with hair and blood.
Sells related how he informed Mendel,
and went back to the Sells’ homestead.
The Sells family were highly respected
country people. They were all members
of the Methodist church. Mr. Bells was
a school teacher. Willie, the son, is un-
doubtedly the murderer, and the only
motive he could have had was that his
brother Waty had been attending school
away from home, and he had become
jealous, Waty had just returned
school and Willie, after murdering his
brother, probably thought it necessary
to kill the others to conceal his crime.
The trial will take place in April
FROM THE WHEAT BELT.
The Crop Will Not Average Well Over the
Great Grain Region.
8: Louis, March 11.—The “Planter
and Stockman, of this city, publishes a
full report of the condition of the wheat
crop in the entire winter wheat beit, the
information being derived from a very
+{ large number of reliable correspondents,
The average is nearly the same as last
year. As to the present condition Ten-
nessee reports the plant stood the win-
‘f ter well.
In Kentucky the plant is growing, the
heavy snows of February were very fa-
vorable and under good; conditions an
average crop is looked for.
In Michigan wheat went into the win-
ter in a bad condition and on account of
bad weather and little snow much of the
plant has been seriously injured.
Indiana has also experienced very
changeable weather for the past month,
which has injured the plant to some ex-
tent, and the prospect for a full crop is
poor. The outlook is about the same in
Ohio. Kansas reports are conflicting
and the prospects are only fair,
In Missouri the outlook is favorable,
and with no decided change for the
worse before April there will be an av-
erage crop. LE
lilinois makes an exhibition much
like Kansas. The condition differs great-
ly according to locality, and only under
unusually favorable circumstances can
there be more than a three-fourths crop.
From the Pacific coast all correspondents
that while the crop is not as far ad-
vanced as last year, the prospects now
are excellent. Old wheat has generally
gone out of farmers’ hands and ship-
ments are large.
nh
ont:
live,
way.
Upon
most horrible
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from
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THE COAL MINERS’ STRIKE.
The Action of the Clearficld Men Giving the
Operators Much Co sera.
Huntingdon, March 14.—The coal op-
erators in the greater part of Federation
No. 3 were but little more than specta-
tors of the movements of the miners be-
fore the strike was brought to a crisis in
Clearfieldand made general by the ac-
tion at Houtzdale yesterdsy. There were
reasons to hope, from the overwhelming
majority given in favor of arbitration
when the former vole was taken, that
the men in the Houtzdale district would
continue their refusal to strike and com:
pel the strikers in other of the fed.
eration to go back into the mines and
this the operators depended upon. Bat
now the latter are compelled to take cog-
nizanoce of situation and to
look after their imperiled interests. The
loss to the will be enormous,
Me
IEG | TAOS
Soldiers’ Orphans Being Starved at Mercer,
Mercer, March 15,~When the Goy-
ernor and Attorney~Ceneral reached the
Boldiers’ Orphan School here to-day they
naturally expected (hat everything would
be in good condition the officials
ready to receive them. An Lour's inves
tigation, however, proved that while
some matters had corrected,
merous evils continued to exist,
ah
£xad ia
been nig.
There
had been made a poor attempt to clean
up about the rickety old bLaildings and
give a borrowed air of comfort to the
surroundings, Here and there evi
dences of a recent application of the
scrubbing brush were noticeable, and in
gone parts of the bed
clothing had beea changed, so as to give
the casual visitor a false impresion of
cleanliness
building the
The Principal and Matron assured the
Governor that the regular bath tubs bad
been used is late as sturday, bot the
the room
did not bear out pretense,
are but two tubs in room. QOage of
them was foaud to be too much cracked
to bold water, and the other showed a
quantity of dirt that must have been
Several po accumulating, Someof the
pOYS and girls were not provided i
full palate suits. The Ty
were greatly overcrowded, A number
of children slept three in a bed, and no
bed has less than two occupants, even
where the maliresses were bat 33 inches
wide, The stieets and bolsters on some
of the be is were so filthy that the At-
torney-General declared they were worse
than at Mount Joy. To cap the climax
a petition was handed {5 the Governor
signed by more than 50 boys, stating that
they had not enough to eat and asked
for relief. Much of the plothing of the
scholars was found to be very shabby
and 8 room was revealed eon taining suf
ficient absolutely worthless old clothing
to breed = pestilcuce. It was the inten.
tion to have this jot of worn-out rags
washed and patched and issued to new
comers and emailer childrea as new
ciothing.
_ It bas been discovered that a vast po-
litical and ring influence has been keep-
ing the public in ignorance. Witnesses,
both boys and girls, who have been be-
fore the committee, state that the food
is very poor and often so stule and full
of worms that many were sickesed at
appearance of the bath tubs in
that There
Lhe
fear of punishment. The Hammer hovs
and others were recently so horribly
beaten by the principal with white thorn
rods that they lay in the infirmary.
The Momeyer girls, who say they were
not allowed to wear shawis, suffered
from cold on sccount of the tamble-down
buildings. Undue familiarity between
the sexes was winked at, No letters con.
taining complaints were ever allowed to
leave the institution, snd the writers
were subject 10 cruel hazing and de-
nounced as tattlers,
SHAMOKIN PORTERS.
Bhamokin, March 11 —A rivalry which
bas existed between the porters of the
Windsor and Vanderbilt hotels culmi-
nated this morning in a bloody encoun.
ter. The Windsor porter had secured a
traveling man at the Pennsylvania Rail-
road depot, and was on his way to the
hotel when the Vanderbilt represents.
live endeavored to get possession of the
stranger. A fierce fight ensued, and the
Vanderbilt man knocked his opponent
to the ground, The latter then ran to
the hotel, got a razor, and endeavored to
cut his asssilant’s throst. He succeeded
in inflicting a number of severe gashes
around his head and shoulders.
Judge Krebs, of Clearfield, fined
a druggist $300 for selling liquor without
license,
Thoughtfulness of the Stamp Clerk.
The delicately thoughtful stamp clerk
described below is an official at the postoffice
in Minneapolis, and it is a correspondent of
The Tribune of that city who thus dilates on
her ineffable sweetness, omitting, however,
to say if she be old or young:
“When a trembling youth or a blushing
maiden hands ber a precious package with
the addressed side down, she never turns it
over. A rough, uncouth man would turn the
addressed side up with reckless indifference
as to the burning sensation to the fluttering
heart and the embarrassment of the owner of
the package outside the stamp window. But
not she. The package is always weighed
wrong side up, and the trembling one with-
out breathes an inward blessing on her."—
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Description of a Toboggan Suit,
A lively Philadelphia girl describes the to-
boggan suit cs follows: You first get a long
and wide rol! of flannel, and, having divested
yourself of the majority of your clothing,
you hold one end of this to the back of your
neck, get your maid to bold the other, and